The community has been known as Jones or Jones Station and had its beginning with the coming of the railroad prior to the Civil War. Sometime in the late 1850’s, possibly 1857, social unrest halted railroad construction at Brownsville. Between 1857 and the end of the war a Mr. Jones, father of Ned Jones, gave about 4 acres of land at the railroad as a train stop for shipping and receiving goods. The earliest record of shipping is in the 1900’s. The last crossties were loaded in 1965.

The post office was established in 1895 with Dave McNeil as Postmaster.  In 1903 the first Rural Route in Haywood County began at and from Jones Station with V. C. Booth as carrier.  Two more routes began in 1904 with R. A. White and Perry Simon as carriers.  The Post Office was closed 30 June 1953.

The first worship services in the area were in homes, then “brush arbor” and later the warehouse alternating twice a month with Methodist and Baptist ministers. As time went on most became affiliated with Allens Baptist, Holly Grove, Providence or Zion.

Businesses:

• Cotton Gins
  • Roe Booth, 1903 to end of WWI
  • 1914 Neblett & Albright opened a modern gin.
• Sawmills
  • Blackwell Brothers
  • Fred Volterman
  • Shuttleswoth & Elder and Pipkins
  • Nowell and V. M. Pennell from 1926 to 1934.
  • Store and Warehouse: J. B. Boot
  • Store: J. H. Pipkins
• Pool Hall
  • Closed circa 1919 by Rev. G. B. Daws.
  • Mrs. Eldorado Booth and turned into a mission house.
  • Or the poll room closed and was turned into a mission house supervised by Daws and Mrs. Booth and this closed in 1919. (Some of these old records are really hard to interpret.)